To the stars through difficulties.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.
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That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.
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When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.
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Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: ” Is this the condition that I feared?”
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Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.
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Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
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There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.
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He who has great power should use it lightly.
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This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time.
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To the believers it is true. To the wise it is false. To the leaders it is useful.
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